Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-07
CONDENSED NEWS.
John l.. Sullivan is said to have cleared
So 1000 from his sparring tour in Montana.

John L.. sullivan Is SAID 10 nave ~tedieu
ST., 900 from his sparring tour in Montana.
Receiver Cooley, of the Wabash railway,
has appointed Richard J. Reese purchasing
agent
Thomas johnson closed a thirty-day quail
feat at t;pringfeld, His, Thursday, by eat
ing three.
Governor Bodwell, of Maine, favors the
levying on fish from Canada of such rates OF
duty as to exclude the article.
A temperature of 40 degrees below zero
.yas registered by spirit Thermometers at
Fort keogh On Wednesday night
Tbs contract for the construction Of the
naval cruissr Charleston was awarded to the
Uniol lfou works, of San Francisco, Thurs
ley.
The New York chamber of commerce has
adopted resolutions favoriag s. 5 Cox's Dill
epprOprialins S5o,000,Wo for coast de-
lenses.
The chief aspirants for the Texas senator
ship are ireland, Maxey, Reagan, and Ter
reii, with tine probabilities favoring the
former.
The Wholesale millinery house of Thomp-
son, Stewart 4 Co, in Cincinnati, whose
dvbts amount to s60, 900, made an assignment
Thursday
During ii prayer meeting at school house
near Eldoralo Springs, No, man named
Oazes raised disturbance, and then killed
a worshlpsr with a knife.
In the federal court at st. Louis, on plea
Of guilty, Joseph H, White was sentenced to
three years in the psnitentiary for counter
ieting Brazilian bank notes.
The legislature of Connecticut elected 7.
C. Lounsbury governor and James l.. How
ard lieutenant governor. They were the
Republican candidates at the late election.
On the crossing at Clark and Sixteenth
streets. Chicago, Thursday forenoon, pas
Albany roads collided sidewise with such
force as to derail an engine and two cars
Four pers ms We're slightly hurt.
President Cleveland Thursday received q
call from young man whom he recently
parioned from panitentiary, who desired
to express his gratitude and offer assurance;
of future good conduct He was treated
, with courtesy and encouragement.
| A leak in natural gas main at Houugs
town, Ohio caused an explosion in the new
Andrews block, on South Market street
Fumes burst forth at once, and the entir'
building and the First Baptist church wer
DESTROYED. The total loss is 100000.
| The members of the troublesome st. Al
| bertus church, in Detroit, recently contrib
uted 50 600 with which to send two Pole
to Rome to confer with the pope. The dele
gates were last heard from at Chicago
| whence they wrote back for $500 NOR
| each.
| The Montana Central roal has beer
graded the entire length from Rimini t.
| Great Falls, but the rates demanded by th
| Union and Northern Pacific roads for tn
transportation of rails and materials hav
utterly blocked the project for eighteen
months
| George keck, for many years assistant su
perintendent of the infirmary of Akron
! Ohio, has been arrested for criminal intimac
with an insane inmate He intends to retail
ate by statement that the bodies of decease
paupers are regularly sold to medical col
lege in Cleveland.
At San Francisco, on Wednesday evening
a dynamite cartridge was placed in slot o
the Suffer street cable road. A lady saw
man lift the trap and lower lighled pack
age The explosion shattered the masonr
and broke the pulleys. The iron plates Q
the man-holes were blown 200 feet.
Annie orc nnor, employed last year in
! Toledo hotel. received Information that
vast estate in England had been left to hel
The publication of the story called out
letter from James O'Keefe, a prominent ci
itzen of PittSburg, whom she met and ma
ried a few days ago. She had received /, 0C
offers of marriage since coming into her 70
time